Selenium IDE “Next Generation”, has current Chrome and Firefox plugins, that work with the latest versions of the browsers.

Does the new “Official” IDE offer any benefits?

I really need to spend some more time with the IDE to do it justice. My initial reaction so far:

Debugging tests is pretty straightforward

The “If, else if, else and end” logic if very useful for creating basic conditional flow

An example where this might be useful, is if you want to accept Cookie consent, but only if you haven’t done so already

The saved tests appear to be stored in JSON, and so far I don’t see an obvious way to convert them into something more useful you can continue “real” development with in a framework of your choice. So your stuck loading the tests back into SIDE or..

There is an Node/NPM Based “SIDE” test runner, I haven’t had time to check this out yet but this is the suggested route for using SIDE tests in CI.

Should you care?

First off, I didn’t spend much time in the “old” IDE, and I’ve only had a very short look at the new. So I’m not yet very well placed to judge.